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This paper is starting with a brief look into what kind of sociocultural background made blog-novel come up. And then it is considering on characteristics and meanings of a blog-novel, particularly focusing on Park Bum Sin’s Cholache and Hwang Suk Young’s Gebobbaragibyul’. Blog was appeared around 2001 in Korea and it was the year of 2007 when the actual form of a blog-novel had started, ‘Cholache’ was the one. We should point out that these three elements; an author, an Internet portal, and needs of a publishing company, meet one another and brought the prevalence of blog-novel. Writers have rediscovered the Internet as a new communication gateway of meeting readers under the condition which novel readers reducing every year. Reader’s existence as a prosumer is the main player of making changes on novel in the Internet days and a blog-novel is a genre which naturally appeared among netizen readers who wrote it on their blog. Blog-novel is not a writer-centered or a one-sided writing but it is a genre that reflects the interactive characteristic of Internet writings. It is a genre that had been born with a culture of reply writing. Blogers not only download the works just to read but they also use a writer’s blog as a meeting square of literature. Blog-novel includes writer’s works as well as reader’s reply writings as a literature work, so the text extends to all the blog space. The blog first started as a writer’s one-person media, but it had started linking up with another then it changed as a gigantic online community which could be a literature storage by itself. Participating in this literary net offers a reader to have an experience that he or she has never had before. New concept of novel reading in the Internet days has begun which is hard to get by reading alone. If interactivity is a new symbol of modernism, we should find the spatial meaning of a blog from there. In this paper, it analyzed some specific cases of how interactive writings and readings perform in a blog-novel. In Park Bum Sin’s ‘Cholache’, this paper took a look at the blog reading, new reading experiences, new rooms for a writer and a reader, limit of the work as a blog-novel and its cultural meaning, etc. And in Hwang, Suk Young’s ‘Gebobbaragibuyl’, this paper studied on a writer who went to a media beyond the computer, a writer and a reader facing in the blog, an imposing status of blog-novels, and so on.